Maragondon

Maragondon
Municipality
Municipality of Maragondon
Our Lady of the Assumption Parish Church Maragondon Municipal Hall Bonifacio Trial House Maragondon Town Plaza Maragondon Town Proper
Flag Seal
Nickname:  Historic Town & Wildlife Sanctuary
Map of Cavite with Maragondon highlighted
OpenStreetMap
Maragondon Location within the Philippines
Coordinates: 14°16′26″N120°44′06″E / 14.274°N 120.735°E / 14.274; 120.735
Country	Philippines
Region	Calabarzon
Province	Cavite
District	8th district
Founded	1611
Barangays	27 (see Barangays)
Government   [1]
• Type	Sangguniang Bayan
•  Mayor	Lawrence N. Arca
•  Vice Mayor	Aldous S. Angeles
•  Representative	Aniela Bianca D. Tolentino
•  Municipal Council	Members Lorenzo Miguel U. Arca Irineo C. Angeles Bonn B. Rillo Emil P. Digal Joel D. Angue Alexander Alan S. Angeles Joel A. Perio Ehmil Reden C. Sena
•  Electorate	33,872 voters (2025)
Area [2]
• Total	164.61 km2 (63.56 sq mi)
Elevation	77 m (253 ft)
Highest elevation	1,409 m (4,623 ft)
Lowest elevation	0 m (0 ft)
Population  (2024 census) [3]
• Total	41,977
• Density	255.01/km2 (660.47/sq mi)
•  Households	9,770
Economy
•  Income class	3rd municipal income class
•  Poverty incidence	11.27 % (2021) [4]
•  Revenue	₱ 223.6 million (2022)
•  Assets	₱ 473 million (2022)
•  Expenditure	₱ 192.9 million (2022)
•  Liabilities	₱ 90.13 million (2022)
Service provider
• Electricity	Manila Electric Company (Meralco)
Time zone	UTC+8 (PST)
ZIP code	4112
PSGC	0402113000
IDD  :  area code	+63 (0)46
Native languages	Tagalog
Major religions	Roman Catholicism Aglipayan Church Protestantism
Feast date	August 15
Catholic diocese	Diocese of Imus
Patron saint	Our Lady of Assumption
Website	www.maragondon.gov.ph

Maragondon, officially the Municipality of Maragondon (Tagalog : Bayan ng Maragondon), is a municipality in the province of Cavite, Philippines. According to the 2020 census, it has a population of 40,687 people. ^[5]

The town is famous for its bamboo crafts, Mounts Palay-Palay–Mataas-na-Gulod Protected Landscape which includes Mount Pico de Loro, and various ancestral houses and structures important to Philippine history and culture such as Maragondon Church and the execution site and trial house of national hero Andres Bonifacio. ^{[6] [7]}

Etymology

The name Maragondon is a Spanish approximation of the Tagalog word maragundong or madagundong, which means "having a rumbling or thunderous sound". ^[8] This refers to the noise coming from the Kay Albaran river in the village of Capantayan. This was initially the place on which the town was to be built. However, due to the floods caused by the frequent overflowing of the river, the town was later relocated to its present site.

History

Andres Bonifacio's monument at the foot of Mount Nagpatong and Mount Buntis in Maragondon, Cavite where he was believed to be martyred; where his execution took place upon orders of Emilio Aguinaldo's administration last May 10, 1897.

Incidentally, Maragondon has three foundation dates, namely:

1. 1611 when the Franciscan Fathers from Silang established their first visita or chapel;
2. 1690, the fundacion ecclesiastica or founding of the regular parish by the Jesuits, dedicating it to Our Lady of the Assumption;
3. 1727, the fundacion civil, when the original barrio of Maragondon was separated from Silang during the administration of the Recollects and converted into an independent municipality with Gregorio Silvestre as the first gobernadorcillo.

Maragondon belonged to the corregimiento of Mariveles (now part of Bataan) until 1754, when Spanish governor general Pedro Manuel de Arandia (1754–1759) abolished the politico-military administration and restored Maragondon to Cavite province. Alongside Silang, the town's territory was very large during its early decades.

In the second half of the 19th century the towns of Ternate, Magallanes, Gen. Emilio Aguinaldo (formerly Bailen), Alfonso, and Naic were mere barrios of Maragondon. Ternate was the first town to attain full independence on March 31, 1857, under an agreement signed by Tomas de Leon, Felix Nigosa, Pablo de Leon, Florencio Nino Franco and Juan Ramos in behalf of the people of Ternate.

Furthermore, Bailen (now Gen. Aguinaldo) and Alfonso seceded from Maragondon in 1858. Naic then severed as a town in 1869. Magallanes was the last of the villages to attain independence, having been founded on July 15, 1879, under an agreement signed by Crisostomo Riel representing Maragondon, and by Isidro Bello and company representing Magallanes.

During the Philippine Revolution on May 4, 1897, revolutionary leader Andres Bonifacio and his brother Procopio Bonifacio were tried and sentenced to death by a military court that convened in the house of one of the town's prominent personalities, Teodorico Reyes, following the Bonifacios' arrest for defying the authority of Emilio Aguinaldo. They were then held at Maragondon Church until May 10, 1897, ^[9] when they were executed in the Maragondon mountain range. ^[10]

On September 2, 1952, amid political violence in Cavite, the town's mayor, Severino Rillo, was killed along with the town's police chief and several other police officers in the Maragondon Massacre committed by gangster Leonardo Manecio also known as "Nardong Putik", who committed the killings on orders from local politicians. ^[11]

Geography

Maragondon is 44 kilometers (27 mi) from Imus, the provincial capital, and 54 kilometers (34 mi) from Manila, the national capital.

Barangays

Maragondon is politically subdivided into 27 barangays, as indicated below.  ^[12] Each barangay consists of puroks and some have sitios.

• Bucal 1
• Bucal 2
• Bucal 3A
• Bucal 3B
• Bucal 4A
• Bucal 4B
• Caingin Pob.
• Garita 1A
• Garita 1B
• Layong Mabilog
• Mabato
• Pantihan 1 (Balayungan)
• Pantihan 2
• Pantihan 3 (Pook na Munti)
• Pantihan 4 (Pulo ni Sara)
• Patungan
• Pinagsanhan A (Ibayo)
• Pinagsanhan B (Ibayo)
• Poblacion 1A
• Poblacion 1B
• Poblacion 2A
• Poblacion 2B
• San Miguel A (Caputatan)
• San Miguel B (Caputatan)
• Talipusngo
• Tulay Silangan (Mabacao)
• Tulay Kanluran (Mabacao)

Climate

Climate data for Maragondon, Cavite
Month	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec	Year
Mean daily maximum °C (°F)	29 (84)	30 (86)	32 (90)	34 (93)	32 (90)	31 (88)	29 (84)	29 (84)	29 (84)	30 (86)	30 (86)	29 (84)	30 (87)
Mean daily minimum °C (°F)	20 (68)	20 (68)	21 (70)	22 (72)	24 (75)	24 (75)	24 (75)	24 (75)	24 (75)	23 (73)	22 (72)	21 (70)	22 (72)
Average precipitation mm (inches)	10 (0.4)	10 (0.4)	12 (0.5)	27 (1.1)	94 (3.7)	153 (6.0)	206 (8.1)	190 (7.5)	179 (7.0)	120 (4.7)	54 (2.1)	39 (1.5)	1,094 (43)
Average rainy days	5.2	4.5	6.4	9.2	19.7	24.3	26.9	25.7	24.4	21.0	12.9	9.1	189.3
Source: Meteoblue [13]

Demographics

Population census of Maragondon

Year	Pop.	±% p.a.
1903	7,191	—
1918	7,266	+0.07%
1939	9,449	+1.26%
1948	8,465	−1.21%
1960	9,994	+1.39%
1970	12,743	+2.46%
1975	14,785	+3.03%
1980	18,018	+4.03%
1990	22,814	+2.39%
1995	25,828	+2.35%
2000	31,227	+4.15%
2007	33,604	+1.02%
2010	35,289	+1.80%
2015	37,720	+1.28%
2020	40,687	+1.61%
2024	41,977	+0.75%
Source: Philippine Statistics Authority [14] [15] [16] [17] [18]

In the 2020 census, the population of Maragondon was 40,687 people, ^[19] with a density of 250 inhabitants per square kilometer or 650 inhabitants per square mile.

Government

Main article: Sangguniang Bayan

Elected officials

The following are the elected officials of the town elected last May 12, 2025 which serves until 2028:

Position	Official
Mayor	Lawrence N. Arca (NPC)
Vice Mayor	Aldous S. Angeles (NUP)

Sangguniang Bayan Members	Party
Lorenzo Miguel U. Arca	NPC
Irineo C. Angeles	NPC
Bonn B. Rillo	NPC
Emil P. Digal	NPC
Joel D. Angue	NPC
Alexander Alan S. Angeles	Independent
Joel A. Perio	NPC
Ehmil Reden C. Sena	NPC
ABC President
To be determined
SK Federation President
To be determined

Education

The Maragondon Schools District Office governs all educational institutions within the municipality. It oversees the management and operations of all private and public, from primary to secondary schools. ^[20]

Primary and elementary school

• Balayungan Elementary School
• Bucal I Elementary School
• Bucal II Elementary School
• Layong Mabilog Elementary School
• Living Word Christian School
• Mabato Elementary School
• Maragondon Elementary School
• Maragondon Parochial School
• Marcelo D. Samaniego Elementary School
• Pantihan II Elementary School
• Pantihan III Elementary School
• Pinagsanhan Elementary School
• Pulo ni Sara Elementary School
• San Miguel Elementary School
• Sta. Mercedes Elementary School
• Talipusngo Elementary School
• Tulay Elementary School

Secondary schools

• Bucal National Integrated School
• Bucal National High School - Sta. Mercedes Annex
• Cavite Science Integrated School
• Maragondon National High School
• Pulo ni Sara National High School

Higher educational institution

• Cavite State University

Images

• 
  Our Lady of the Assumption, Maragondon
• 
  Maragondon Parochial School
• 
  Iglesia Filipina Independiente (Aglipayan) Parish of the Virgin of the Assumption in Maragondon, Cavite.
• 
  Our Lady of the Assumption Parish Church
• 
  Welcome arch
• 
  Barangay Poblacion 1-B
• 
  Public market
• 
  Bonifacio Trial House
• 
  Mt. Pico De Loro Monolith
• 
  Silyang Bato of Mt. Marami
• 
  Kaybiang Tunnel
• 
  Maragondon River at dusk

References

1.   Municipality of Maragondon | (DILG)
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7. "Maragondon's Natural Wonders: 10 Reasons to Choose the Town That Has It All (Prequel) - Choose Philippines. Find. Discover. Share". Archived from the original on 2019-01-08. Retrieved 2019-01-08.
8. Lesho, Marivic; Sippola, Eeva (2018). "Toponyms in Manila and Cavite, Philippines". Vergleichende Kolonialtoponomastik Strukturen und Funktionen kolonialer Ortsbenennung. De Gruyter. pp. 317–332. ISBN   9783110608618.
9. Cinco, Maricar (2017-06-11). "Witness to the Supremo's trial". Philippine Daily Inquirer. Retrieved 2025-04-08.
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12. "Province:". PSGC Interactive. Quezon City, Philippines: Philippine Statistics Authority . Retrieved 25 August 2025.
13. "Maragondon: Average Temperatures and Rainfall". Meteoblue. Retrieved 1 August 2021.
14. "2024 Census of Population (POPCEN) Population Counts Declared Official by the President". Philippine Statistics Authority. 17 July 2025. Retrieved 18 July 2025.
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17. Censuses of Population (1903–2007). "Region IV-A (Calabarzon)". Table 1. Population Enumerated in Various Censuses by Province/Highly Urbanized City: 1903 to 2007. National Statistics Office.
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19. "2024 Census of Population (POPCEN) Population Counts Declared Official by the President". Philippine Statistics Authority. 17 July 2025. Retrieved 18 July 2025.
20. "Masterlist of Schools" (PDF). Department of Education. January 15, 2021. Retrieved October 7, 2025.

External links

• Philippine Standard Geographic Code
• Philippine Census Information